Monthly Archives: October 2022
Comparing proactive Irma prep under Governor Scott to reactive Ian prep under Governor DeSantis
I fired off this tweet storm yesterday evening after going through my own notes on Hurricane Irma taken in September 2017. It’s pretty clear despite my personal distaste for Governor Scott’s approach, it was more effective in coordination with local governments as well as proactive about evacuations than the DeSantis approach in Ian. For those […]
Botched evacuations & bureaucratic indifference lead to death – what happened in the 1935 Keys storm
With Hurricane Ian’s death toll rising in addition to the other enormous costs for Florida, this seems like an appropriate time to discuss the 1935 Labor Day Keys Hurricane, the strongest to ever make landfall in the US. The National Hurricane Center in 2014 reclassified the 1935 Keys Labor Day Storm, one of the greatest tragedies […]
TFS Archives: Irma a year later. Assessing the rubble of Florida’s disaster and has the state made the needed changes?
This is really important in the wake of Ian. All sorts of promises of change were made after Irma, and most promises were not kept. By Islanders41 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62406207 IRMA A YEAR LATER: ASSESSING THE RUBBLE OF FLORIDA’S DISASTER AND PREVENTING FAILURE AGAIN September 9, 2018 · by Kartik Krishnaiyer · in 2018, Hurricane season · 2 Comments ·Edit From […]
Express Lane: Peter Schorsch schools DeSantistans, Cape Coral typifies coastal over-development, interior flooding and Leon GOP throws in with John Dailey
Note: We’re publishing early today Ron DeSantis for better or worse has attracted a lot of new Floridians, ones let’s just say that are showing how unFloridian they are in reaction to Ian. Here are some choice Tweets from Saturday courtesy of Florida Politics Publisher Peter Schorsch. It was quite odd to see DeSantis doing […]
The New Republic: Hurricane Ian exposes Ron DeSantis faux environmentalism
I penned this piece for The New Republic, on Thursday after Ian ravaged much of the state.
Looking back at Hurricane Andrew
Five years ago, to mark the 25th Anniversary of Hurricane Andrew we ran a special series. In the wake of Hurricane Ian, it’s time reup this. Here are links from our archives: Part I: 1966 to 1992 Complacency and good luck for south Florida Part II: The week leading into Andrew NOAA image Part III […]
The cone – an obsolete tool that needs to be eliminated
I’ve been personally stressing as long as Twitter has existed that the cone that the NHC uses and then public seems to love is a misleading tool, often causing deadly confusion. The focus on the “cone” does more harm than good. It’s often forgotten, that the cone projects into the future the potential location of […]
The Florida Squeeze 